Sentence examples for in a squabble over from inspiring English sources

Last month the two sides reached an interim deal to restart oil exports from the landlocked South Sudan through the north to Red Sea ports after the South shut down its wells in a squabble over transit fees.

(He even admits that Pip, great-grandson of an Andy Warhol dachshund and offspring of dogs owned by the artist Ross Bleckner, bit him one Christmas in a squabble over gifts. "I guess he didn't like his," he deadpans).

But the fact that talk of a coup has gained currency here is a sign of how the relationship between the governor and the Senate leader, a tight partnership for most of the five years they have held their posts, has deteriorated, most recently in a squabble over health care spending.

But now its citywide ranking has slipped, its former superintendent has been charged with taking kickbacks in a corrupt contract to supply schools with computers, and it is mired in a squabble over new leadership with Schools Chancellor Harold O. Levy.

In 2001, Canopy and Center 7 sued software giant Computer Associates in a squabble over a business partnership that turned sour.

Sadly, lost in a squabble over "you didn't build that" was the opportunity for a more serious conversation about social contracts.

Some United Nations officials in Kinshasa, the Congo capital, saw the perennial fighting in Kisangani as a squabble over spoils.

In 2005, there was a squabble over Diwali, the Hindu festival of lights, which resulted in its being added to the list.

"If you're going to play in a pool, write down simple rules on who's participating and will share in a prize, and make copies of all the tickets for everybody," said the president, Rebecca Paul, who has tried in vain to settle a squabble over a $90 million jackpot among a pool of 39 Atlanta cabdrivers.

Then he became involved in a public squabble over a meeting with the new head of KPMG while the S.E.C. was considering suing that firm over its Xerox audits.

The Bush administration and Congress have allowed plans for a new Homeland Security Department to get bogged down in a partisan squabble over labor issues.